![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Mainline U.S.A. - Dudley Pictures Corporation
Importance of railroads in the U.S. economy, with many great running views of freight and passenger trains.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 12,316
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Transportation: Bus, Truck, and Taxi - Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Jobs moving people.
Keywords: Occupations: Transportation
Downloads: 5,782
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Great Railroad at Work, A (Part III) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Everything there is to know about the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 9,004
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Great Railroad at Work, A (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Everything there is to know about the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 9,303
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| At This Moment (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Importance of railroads to 1950s America. Directed by Haford Kerbawy.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 6,107
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Big Trains Rolling - Dudley Pictures Corporation
Railroads and how they keep the U.S. economy rolling.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 20,902
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Great Railroad at Work, A (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Everything there is to know about the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 12,891
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| [Besler Corporation Promo Film: Steam-Driven Vehicles] - Besler Corporation
Demonstrates the practicality of steam-driven automobiles, airplanes and trains.
Keywords: Transportation: Steam
Downloads: 20,659
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| At This Moment (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Importance of railroads to 1950s America. Directed by Haford Kerbawy.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 8,753
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Bus Driver, The - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Father and son travel by bus from New York to Pittsburgh in the days when bus travel still attracted elite passengers.
Keywords: Transportation: Bus
Downloads: 7,974
Average rating:  (9 reviews) |  |
| Days of Our Years - Dudley Pictures Corporation
Disturbing and sometimes maudlin trilogy of accidents and their effects on railroad workers and their families, shot with virtuosity in working-class Los Angeles.
Keywords: Safety: Occupational; Transportation: Railroad; Occupations: Transportation
Downloads: 17,419
Average rating: (16 reviews) |  |
| Freedom Highway (Part I) - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
A Greyhound bus transports us through the landscape of American mythology. Directed by Harold Schuster. Director of Photography: Jerry Fairbanks. Screenplay: Charles L. Tedford, Leo S. Rosencrans. Film Editor: Milton Kleinberg. Art Director: Theobold Holsopple. Production Supervisor: John McKennon. Musical Supervision: Edward Paul. Assistant Director: Robert Scrivner. With Marshall Thompson (Mysterious Stranger); Tommy Kirk (Jimmy Rollins); Morris Ankrum (Fred Schroder); Angie Dickinson (Mary); ...
Keywords: Patriotism; Transportation: Bus; Travelogues
Downloads: 16,931
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Flying with Arthur Godfrey (Part I) - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
TV host Arthur Godfrey takes controls of a passenger plane to demonstrate airline operations.
Keywords: Aviation: Commercial; Transportation: Air
Downloads: 21,588
Average rating:  (8 reviews) |  |
| Freedom Highway (Part II) - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
A Greyhound bus transports us through the landscape of American mythology. Directed by Harold Schuster. Director of Photography: Jerry Fairbanks. Screenplay: Charles L. Tedford, Leo S. Rosencrans. Film Editor: Milton Kleinberg. Art Director: Theobold Holsopple. Production Supervisor: John McKennon. Musical Supervision: Edward Paul. Assistant Director: Robert Scrivner. With Marshall Thompson (Mysterious Stranger); Tommy Kirk (Jimmy Rollins); Morris Ankrum (Fred Schroder); Angie Dickinson (Mary); ...
Keywords: Patriotism; Transportation: Bus; Travelogues
Downloads: 9,431
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Desert Empire (Part II) - New Universal Pictures Commercial Department
Railroad tour through the state of Utah, stopping off at many natural attractions and in Salt Lake City. Shows Bingham and other towns in Utah. Director: Carlton T. Sills.
Keywords: Utah; Transportation: Railroad; Travelogues
Downloads: 5,063
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| Desert Empire (Part III) - New Universal Pictures Commercial Department
Railroad tour through the state of Utah, stopping off at many natural attractions and in Salt Lake City. Shows Great Salt Lake, Ogden, Salt Lake City, and visits landmarks of the Mormon settlement. Director: Carlton T. Sills.
Keywords: Utah; Transportation: Railroad; Travelogues
Downloads: 4,895
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Airport, The - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Functions of the modern airport, showing all aspects of airline passenger service.
Keywords: Aviation: Operations; Transportation: Air
Downloads: 15,223
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Desert Empire (Part I) - New Universal Pictures Commercial Department
Railroad tour through the state of Utah, stopping off at many natural attractions and in Salt Lake City. Shows Arches National Monument and the mineral resources of Utah, including coal and copper. Director: Carlton T. Sills.
Keywords: Utah; Transportation: Railroad; Travelogues
Downloads: 5,994
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Flying with Arthur Godfrey (Part II) - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
TV host Arthur Godfrey takes controls of a passenger plane to demonstrate airline operations.
Keywords: Aviation: Commercial; Transportation: Air
Downloads: 15,251
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [Completion of Northwestern Pacific Rail Road] (Part II) - Unknown
Golden Spike ceremonies and celebration for the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Rail Road, October 23-25, 1914. Filmed in Willits, Cain Rock, Arcata and Eureka, California.
Keywords: California; Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 11,221
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| [Redwood Empire Special and Lumber Mills] - Unknown
Condensed version of Golden Spike Celebration on 10/23/14 for the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, held at Cain Rock, Humboldt County, California.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad; California; Celebrations
Downloads: 10,247
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| 6 1/2 Magic Hours - Kahlenberg
The comfort and delight of transatlantic air travel at the beginning of the jet age.
Keywords: Airline industry; Transportation: Air; Tourism
Downloads: 36,729
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| [Relief Supplies for Korea] - Universal-International Newsreel
Relief ship Hawaiian Bear sails from Port of Stockton (California), carrying cargo contributed by the American-Korean Foundation. Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; Korean War; Transportation: Water
Downloads: 2,097
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| March of Progress, The - Harman (Hugh) Productions
Tour of the modern interurban trolley system of San Francisco's East Bay and over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Predicts the bright postwar future of streetcar transit, with visionary images of advanced-design railcars. The Key System transbay service was abandoned in 1961.
Keywords: San Francisco: Infrastructure; Transportation: Interurban streetcars
Downloads: 8,611
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Wheels of Progress - Zenith Cinema Services, Inc.
Operations of the Rock Island Lines. Includes shots of high-speed "Rocket" freight trains; the operation of classification yards; and scenes of agricultural and industrial areas served by the railroad. Writer and Director: John A. McGee.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad; U.S.: Midwest; Occupations: Railroad
Downloads: 9,536
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Beef Rings the Bell (Part II) - Unknown
Beef's importance to American society and economy, and the Union Pacific Railroads's importance to the beef industry.
Keywords: Meat: Production; Transportation: Railroad; Agriculture: Food industry
Downloads: 10,112
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Arteries of New York City - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Shows transportation corridors leading into and out of New York City, and efforts at transportation and infrastructure planning.
Keywords: New York City; Transportation: General; City planning
Downloads: 20,609
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| [California State Fair Highlights] - Progressive Film Producing Company of America
Includes stunt in which two railroad locomotives collide head-on.
Keywords: Stunts; Safety: Railroad; Transportation: Railroad: Accidents
Downloads: 8,481
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Boats - ERPI Classroom Films, Inc.
Trip down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City.
Keywords: Transportation: Water; New York City: History
Downloads: 8,929
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Big Train, The (Part II) - MPO Productions
Operations of the New York Central Railroad. Producer and director: Victor Solow. Introduced by NYCRR president Alfred E. Perlman.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad; Occupations: Railroad; New York State
Downloads: 10,221
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Big Train, The (Part I) - MPO Productions
Operations of the New York Central Railroad. Producer and director: Victor Solow. Introduced by NYCRR president Alfred E. Perlman.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad; Occupations: Railroad; New York State
Downloads: 13,366
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| True Experience of Officer Harold Sewell, The - Unknown
Dramatized screen ad showing how a flashlight powered by Eveready batteries prevents a train wreck.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Transportation: Railroad; Batteries
Downloads: 6,780
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| [Panama Canal] - Duhem Motion Picture Manufacturing Company
Views of the recently-finished Panama Canal.
Keywords: Civil engineering; Panama Canal; Transportation: Water
Downloads: 419 |  |
| Passenger Train, The (Second Edition) - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
A young boy travels from Chicago, Illinois to Lamy, New Mexico via passenger train.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad; Tourism; U.S.: West
Downloads: 11,036
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Flying Businessman - Film Originals
How businesspeople can benefit from general aviation. With many shots of flying businessmen, airports and airport and aviation facilities in the Fifties. Kodachrome.
Keywords: Aviation: General; Transportation: Air; Occupations: Management
Downloads: 7,426
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Highballing to Victory - U.S. War Department
Transportation in wartime.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront; Rubber; Transportation: General
Downloads: 4,583
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Beef Rings the Bell (Part I) - Unknown
Beef's importance to American society and economy, and the Union Pacific Railroads's importance to the beef industry.
Keywords: Meat: Production; Transportation: Railroad; Agriculture: Food industry
Downloads: 8,122
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Big Delivery Wagon, The - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
Shows transportation system necessary to move agricultural crops from farm to factory, where they are made into Heinz food products, especially ketchup.
Keywords: Agriculture: Food industry; Food: Condiments; Transportation: General
Downloads: 6,234
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| [Completion of Northwestern Pacific Rail Road] (Part I) - Unknown
Golden Spike ceremonies and celebration for the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Rail Road, October 23-25, 1914. Filmed in Willits, Cain Rock, Arcata and Eureka, California.
Keywords: California: History and culture; Transportation: Railroad; California: Redwood Empire
Downloads: 8,868
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| News Parade: Bombing of Pearl Harbor - Castle Films
Attack on Pearl Harbor; the S.S. Normandie fire at a New York pier.
Keywords: World War II: Pearl Harbor; Transportation: Water; Newsreels
Downloads: 51,308
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| New Horizons - Dudley Pictures Corp.
The "story of a new South whose roots are embedded deep in the honored tradition of the old." Shows the economy of the Southeast, white and African American workers, cities, and daily life, all in the context of railroad business and operations. Producer and Director: Carl Dudley. Script: Herman Boxer.
Keywords: U.S.: Southeast; Transportation: Railroad; Labor: 1940s
Downloads: 3,762
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Facts on Friction
0690 PA8676 Facts on Friction
Keywords: FRICTION; MACHINERY; PHYSICS; PETROLEUM; LUBRICATION; AUTOMOBILES; MAINTENANCE; TRANSPORTATION; CHEVROLET
Downloads: 5,937
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Special Delivery - Safety Enterprises Corporation
How Superior Coach Co. school buses move children safely to and from school, told through the experience of Mickey Miller, who is just a bit too young to ride the bus to school and yearns to do so. Dramatic film in Ektachrome which uses closeups well. School bus driver: John Butler (police chief of Mansfield, Ohio, where this film was produced).
Keywords: Children: Psychology; Transportation: Buses: School buses; Safety: School buses
Downloads: 4,197
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| This Is My Railroad (Part II) - Unknown
Operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with many images of the territory that it serves. With excellent footage of snow management and removal operations in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad; U.S.: West; California: History and culture
Downloads: 24,656
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| [Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire, A] - Miles Brothers
PLEASE NOTE: A much higher-quality DV version (2.3 GB) now available at http://www.archive.org/details/TripDownMarketStreetrBeforeTheFire Pictures San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. This unusual record has been called the first "structural film" because it follows exactly the externally imposed structure of the car ride...
Keywords: San Francisco: Scenics: Historical; Transportation: Cable cars; Landscapes: Cultural
Downloads: 77,698
Average rating: (34 reviews) |  |
| Troop Train - U.S. Office of War Information
Evocative World War II-era film following a troop train: the coordination of effort; its staging and assembly of cars, cargo and passengers; its heavily guarded journey through the American countryside; and the food, sleep, exercise, training, drilling and recreation of its soldier-passengers.
Keywords: World War II: Logistics; World War II: Homefront; Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 16,829
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| This Is My Railroad (Part I) - Unknown
Operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with many images of the territory that it serves. With excellent footage of snow management and removal operations in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad; U.S.: West; California: History and culture
Downloads: 30,840
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [Mount Tamalpais Gravity Railroad] - Unknown
Railroad transporting tourists to top of Marin County's highest peak.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: Marin County; Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 6,002
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Three to Get Ready: A Progress Report from BART - Levene (Carol)
Shows stages in the construction of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: BART; Transportation: Subways and metros; San Francisco Bay Area: Infrastructure
Downloads: 5,444
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Home Movies: Can 11340: Oakland, California, ca. 1930s
Shot in and around Oakland, California in the 1930s by an unidentified family. Shows passenger railroad trains in and around Oakland; Oakland Airport; family activities around Lake Merritt; and a trip in a small plane, probably from Oakland Airport.
Keywords: Home movies; Oakland; California; Railroads (Passenger); transportation
Downloads: 749
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
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